Re: filesystem bug?

[Tsuchiya Yoshihiro]

Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:

>OK, I'll try your script with a 2.4.21 or 2.4.23 kernel to see if we can
>reproduce this here.  In the mean time, could you possibly try a 2.4.24
>kernel, just in case the clear_inode race has something to do with this?
>
>  
>
Stephen, I started running the test on ext2 and ext3 on 2.4.24-pre2.

BTW, what exactly is the clear_inode and read_inode race that you mentioned?

I am not familar with the locking model in Linux kernel. I found
kernel_lock is
held before ext3_rename/unlink/rmdir, so I think it's ok. But I do not
understand
how it is done in the path walk.

Thanks,
Yoshi

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Yoshihiro Tsuchiya



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